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You hate that I couldn't remember whether nix has array delimiters on the spot?

Jeez, tough crowd.

Though it also kinda represents this pride over triviality that some people latch on to in the AI world which is odd since it's also only a mistake a human would make. Had I run my hand-written comment through a proofreading clanker, I would have spared you the negative emotional reaction.

In the pre-AI world, you would have probably not been so harsh since it's understandable that someone make that mistake with such an idiosyncratic language like nix that almost nobody writes full-time. Yet in the AI world, you demand more from humans.

Something interesting, there.

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> [..] only a mistake a human would make. Had I run my hand-written comment through a proofreading clanker [..]

That's true, and I should've been less rude in my previous comment. Sorry.

(Though note `nix eval` would've sufficed, no need for the probabilistic kind of clanker)

> Yet in the AI world, you demand more from humans.

But this isn't true. In my opinion `learning >> depending on an LLM` and my gripe is that it seems like the former is being displaced by the latter. In the pre-AI world I would've known that the person making the mistake wasn't making it because they outsourced their skill.

So I'm not, in fact, demanding anything more than in the pre-AI world.

The other poster is being a jerk, but your point doesn’t really refute theirs: if you can’t even be bothered to check for an array delimiter, instead passing that on to an AI, how will you ever learn?

People are being more demanding of humans because humans are taking knowledge and learning for granted. All this abstraction has a cost, and the cost is you.

Things are falling out of your memory all the time as a function of how often or seldom you do something, how trivial or superficial the information is, and how minor the difference between other tools you use regularly.

Despite many years of experience, I still sometimes get this wrong in Python or its equivalent in the other languages I regularly switch between:

    from math import sqrt as s
    import sqrt as s from math
    import sqrt from sqrt as s

The difference here is that, because I admitted to using AI, I don't get the grace of making the most trivial mistake in a forum comment.

And suddenly we pretend that had I just written it by hand a few more times, I would never err again in forum comments, despite making similar errors this week in languages I've used to write millions of lines of code across decades.

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